Star’s career hits buffers

Lahore – Pakistan cricket banned former Test opener Nasir Jamshed (above) for 10 years yesterday on multiple charges of spot fixing, wrapping up a 16-month investigation into a wide-ranging scandal that rocked the Pakistan Super League.

Jamshed, 28, is the sixth player to be banned following the scandal that tainted the Twenty20 tournament in only its second year, and was described by cricket authorities as its lynchpin.

“Today’s decision against Jamshed wraps up the fixing saga and the tribunal has banned him for ten years on multiple charges,” said Pakistan Cricket Board legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi yesterday.

Spot-fixing refers to illegal activity in a sport where a specific part of a game is fixed, unlike match-fixing, where the whole result is fixed.

Jamshed was first banned for 12 months in December last year after he was found guilty of non-cooperation with the tribunal investigating allegations of spot-fixing.

This year, he faced five further charges related to fixing, all of which were proven, said Rizvi.

Swashbuckling opener Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Irfan and Mohammad Nawaz have also been given bans of varying lengths.

Regarded as an extremely talented left-hander, Jamshed played two Tests, 48 one-day and 18 Twenty20 internationals for Pakistan. He also hit three consecutive one-day hundreds against India in 2012. –